Conversations, talks, panel discussions and book launches organised by the School of Divinity’s new Scottish Network for Religion and Literature. All welcome. For enquiries, please contact Dr Linden Bicket: l.bicket@ed.ac.ukSemester 1: Autumn 2024DateSpeakersTopicThursday 17 October at 4.10pm in the Martin HallDr Sarah Leith, Associate Lecturer in the History of Scotland and the Wider World at the University of St Andrews‘Mountaineers and Metaphysics during Scotland’s Twentieth Century’Dr Leith will discuss Scottish mountaineers and hillwalkers including Nan Shepherd, Isobel Wylie Hutchison, and Sydney Scroggie, and will talk about the spiritual receptions of mountain landscapes through their writings, which engage with Christianity, Zen Buddhism and Perennial Philosophy.Tuesday 19 November at 4.10pm in the Martin HallProfessor Adriaan van Klinken, Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of LeedsJoint-Seminar with the Centre for the Study of World Christianity: 'Contemporary Nigerian Literature as African Religion and World Christianity'Through their characters, Nigerian authors explore different forms of Christianity in their novels as part of the contemporary social, cultural landscape. This is a shift from the previous generation of literary giants who wrote of Christianity as a religious and political intruder, carrying out colonialism's work. Drawing from his book manuscript, Prof van Klinken will discuss what novels can tell us about the social effects of religions in the present day.2 December, 4:10-5:30pm, in the Martin HallDr Rodge Glass and Dr Jay Prosser'Memoirs of love and loss: a seminar with Rodge Glass and Jay Prosser'This seminar introduces the recently published memoirs Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, A Legacy, A Son Returns by Jay Prosser and Joshua in the Sky by Rodge Glass and explores memoir as a genre for negotiating complex identities that span ethnic, religious, national, and family boundaries. This article was published on 2024-03-19
